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Mollie Mitchell & John Wilson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $47k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVATION ARMY | $12,500 |
| EVERGREEN CHRISTIAN OUTREACH | $12,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES | $12,000 |
| HASTINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MOUNTAIN AREA LAND TRUST | $8,500 |
| LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY | $6,000 |
| ENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO | $6,000 |
| MOUNT EVANS HOME HEALTH CARE & HOSPICE | $6,000 |
| BOOTSTRAPS SCHOLARSHIPS & LOANS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| TRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| DENVER POST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - SEASON TO SHARE | $3,000 |
| KANSAS COSMOSPHERE & SPACE CENTER INC | $2,500 |
| PALMER LAND CONSERVANCY | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 19% of Mollie Mitchell & John Wilson Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
31 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- FBFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES8× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +74%
- ECEVERGREEN CHRISTIAN OUTREACH8× · 2017–2025 · $59k · revenue +110%
- HPHASTINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +195%
Funded once
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCHgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +384%- TUTRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $5k
- MSMEAN STREET MINISTRYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +124%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…
To conserve and steward the open lands and natural character of the headwaters of the colorado river in partnership with the local community.
Partnering to improve quality of life as a nonprofit organization dedicated to mental health and wellness. healing is our purpose, help is our promise, health is our passion.
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.
Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
Construct, finance, and own the mile high united way morgridge center for community change.
The mission of estes valley land trust is to conserve land throughout the estes valley and surrounding areas for current and future generations.
The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mountain Area Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 47 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN CHRISTIAN OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN AREA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds HUTCHINSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HASTINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Bootstraps Inc ↗
- Who funds ENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J PALMER PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN LIVING COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds MOUNT EVANS HOSPICE INC DBA MOUNT EVANS HOME HEALTH CARE AND HOS ↗
- Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds HASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds CRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLUE SPRUCE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND RESCUE TEAM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds COLORADO OPEN LANDS ↗
- Who funds MEAN STREET MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE ↗
- Who funds CLEAR CREEK LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Sweeneys Share The Love Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Ima Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Mollie Mitchell & John Wilson Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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